[Mimedefang] OS wars... [was Viruses: Bounce or Discard?]

[Ben Kamen]

You and Dave make the assumption that the majority of ISP's have people 
working there with a clue.

Not so unfortunately.

But I still agree with you guys.

Stephen Smoogen wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:20, Peter P. Benac wrote:
> 
>>David,
>>
>>    Who are you going to collect this $0.10 from?  The spoofer or the
>>spoofee!!!  Am I to blame if someone send a virus and uses my e-mail address
>>in the From: Field.  Who is to pay for the software that will be required to
>>calculate the per virus charges and then bill my customers?
>>
>>
> 
> Well an ISP has a lot more controll over this than most people. I can
> tell exactly which machines IPs are sending out this crap and those are
> the ones that get the bill.
> 
> Consider it the equivalent of a user finding out his insurance bill has
> gone up because he has one too many accidents/speeding tickets.
> 
>